Expanding health care coverage will aid nation

5:51 AM,
Feb. 15, 2014

Dr. Stephen S. Entman

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Dr. Stephen S. Entman

Charles Krauthammer's column "The health care myths we live by" (Tennessean, Feb. 9) is an excellent example of how science and medicine can be cherry-picked to support a political position.

I like his essay because I agree with some of his anecdotes and disagree with others. Totally irrelevant, of course, because none of these little blurbs is the stuff on which policy should be based. And yet politicians and commentators of all stripes use the same technique: identify a piece of information that they can tweak to support their endgame and use it to confuse fundamental questions.